Re: POSTing a file to a web page and reading response

From:
 someone12345 <hallgrimur@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:16:27 -0700
Message-ID:
<1188584187.837732.88700@r29g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
On Aug 31, 3:40 pm, Lew <l...@lewscanon.com> wrote:

someone12345 wrote:

Hi.

I'm trying to read raw data from disk, POSTING it to a site that
converts the file to another format, and then read and save the
response.

I have only found on the web information on how to post a string, not
binary data.


<http://commons.apache.org/fileupload/>

The key is to set the correct content type in the <form> tag,
"multipart/form-data".

--
Lew


This project seems to be at the other end of what I want. I want to
create the client, not the server. I want to submit the file to the
server and read back the server's response.

This is my code so far...

/**
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 * User: hallgrimur
 * Date: 30.8.2007
 * Time: 18:34:12
 * To change this template use File | Settings | File Templates.
 */

import java.io.*;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.URL;

public class check {
    /* URL doc2pdf;*/
   // URLConnection conn;

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        if (args.length != 0) {
            System.out.println(
                    "Proper Usage: java FileDownloader RemoteFileURL
LocalFileName");
            System.exit(0);
        }

        try {
            URL site = new URL("http://xxx");
             FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("c:\\temp\
\test.xxx");
             );

            HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)
site.openConnection();
            conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
            conn.setInstanceFollowRedirects(true);
                       conn.setDoOutput(true);
                                conn.setRequestProperty
    ("Content-Type", "multipart/form-data");
               conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Length","24470"); //
hard coded for testing
             conn.setRequestProperty("Cache-Control"," no-cache");
            conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Disposition","form-data;
name=\"inputDocument\"; filename=\"test.xxx\""); //name of the submit
form action is inputdocument

            DataOutputStream dos;

            OutputStream os = conn.getOutputStream();
            dos = new DataOutputStream(os);

            int data;
            while ((data = fis.read()) != -1) {
                dos.write(data);

            }
            dos.flush();
            os.flush();
            dos.close();
            os.close();
            DataInputStream in = new
DataInputStream(conn.getInputStream());
            FileOutputStream fo = new FileOutputStream("c:\\temp\
\test.yyy");
            while ((data = in.read()) != -1) {
                fo.write(data);
            }
                        fo.flush();
       // fo.close();
        // dos.close();

        }
        catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}

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